Coyote Conservation

1. Why should we protect coyotes? Environmentalists firmly believe that the Coyotes are necessary to preserve the balance of nature. (http://www.whitingwoods.org/coyote_conservation.htm)

2. How much does coyote control cost? Since 1891, when the first programs aimed at control were begun in California, nearly 500,000 Coyotes have been reported destroyed at a cost of an estimated $30 million of the taxpayers' money.(http://www.whitingwoods.org/coyote_conservation.htm)

3. How do coyotes benefit humans? Coyotes eat harmful rodents (mice, rats, ect) and keep them under control.

4. Biologists also agree that Coyote populations have no lasting effects on other wildlife populations.

5. We, as humans, are the ones that led to the changes and destruction that now threatens so much of nature. It is therefore our responsibility to take measures to make changes in our impact on nature so that endangered species are not pushed to extinction. http://www.conservenature.org/prairie/conservation.htm

6. Agricultural interests have urged its control by whatever means necessary so that actual and potential livestock losses may be eliminated. http://www.whitingwoods.org/coyote_conservation.htm

7. Coyotes help to control the deer population which is high. http://savethecoyote.com/